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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2017-01-30 06:55
A bunch of white-out and all the previous sophomoric fingering and other goofy notations are removed from the clarinet part for Respighi: "Impressioni Brasiliane". The Clarineeto I part is now pristine, and the player will soon have it in his head.
Good thing, too, that I have some "Goof Off" after knocking the bottle of white-out onto our newly refinished hardwood floor. Gak.
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Author: rmk54
Date: 2017-01-30 17:09
I have had success scanning parts and cleaning them up in Photoshop.
I save each page as a png file and then clean it up electronically. When I am finished I recombine pages into one pdf and reprint. No fuss, no muss.
If you don't own Photoshop or Acrobat, there are free or inexpensive equivalents available for both platforms.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2017-01-30 20:32
rmk54 wrote:
> I have had success scanning parts and cleaning them up in
> Photoshop.
I have done this, too, with good results. The limitation is that unless you have a wide format printer, you have to print the result on letter-size paper with the notation size reduced to fit. Most non-school music is printed on paper that's anywhere from 9x12 to 10.5x 13 and the size reduction makes some music more difficult to read.
Karl
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Author: Ursa
Date: 2017-01-30 22:03
I've also done this--not just to clean up the scribblings of others, but also with oft-used method book pages. That way, I can mount them into page sleeves inside a loose-leaf binder, where the pages aren't going to shift out of position on the music stand. If you've ever had a lessons session using a student's brand-new Rubank book, you know what a nuisance and distraction it can be to continually have to reposition the music as the stiff new pages try to flip themselves.
Cropping off margins, then stretching the image to fill every bit of a letter-sized page, minimizes the impact on readability. Using the page sleeves, I don't have to leave a wide left margin to accommodate punch holes for mounting the pages in the binder.
Post Edited (2017-01-30 22:11)
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2017-02-08 06:28
Thanks for your comments, folks.
I have tried Photoshop and even in a pinch Paint.
The last time I wore out my scale book, 25 years ago, I took the new copy to a bindery who took out the staples, then stitched and taped the binding. Yes there is a bunch of wear, but it is still fully intact.
Lots of stuff was just plain annoying in that part, from R/L fingerings that don't matter, to note names for a player without an A clarinet. It was too much mental effort to sort out all that junk.
Now the part is like my method book: no markings. You've got to know what you are doing, and you just cannot read note names or fingerings during a performance.
Cheers
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The Clarinet Pages
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